I was phenomenally impressed with Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head, so when 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was published, I jumped on purchasing it as soon as I could.

It has taken me a while to complete the task of finishing up this book. I had started it several months afters its publication, but had to put it down as other things had occupied my attention. The enthusiasm to pick it back up ...

Reading Daniel Pinchbeck's psychedelic biography is like traveling down the same path with him. You're taken down a mystical pathway of initiation and retribution detailed in such a way as to spur your own rite of passage.

When we first meet Pinchbeck in Breaking Open the Head, he presents himself as a skeptical New York materialist that suddenly finds himself in need of discovering that there is more to this world than Wall ...